Bert Walther, Project Manager, has had the privilege of working with many highly qualified people in the Central Kentucky business community. With their help he has gained over 20 years of technology and operations experience, including 10 years of experience in higher education IT management, and over 10 years of project management expertise. In his various roles and responsibilities, he has fostered organizational development through effective program and personnel management, and worked hard to deliver project and initiatives as designed and anticipated.

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Solarity is a Kentucky-based project management consulting company with the focus of helping organizations complete their projects on time and on (or under) budget.

Ben Powell is a Technical Specialist at Microsoft, focusing in the voice, video and collaboration space. He has spent the past 12 years working in the UC and conferencing space, including Microsoft, Tandberg, Cisco, and Polycom. He is a Louisville local, but is originally from the Washington, D.C. area.

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Buffalo Constriction, Inc. is a commercial construction company with one overriding promise, to Build Better!

Shawn is the founder and president of Secure Cyber Defense LLC located in Miamisburg, Ohio. He’s a 20-year IT veteran and served in law enforcement as a police officer in the late 90s. Shawn is a subject matter expert when it comes to FBI criminal justice compliance and speaks across the country on the topic of cyber security. He’s done work with the US Secret Service and the US AirForce teaching on the topic of cyber security.

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From Staffing to IT Solutions, V-Soft Consulting transforms business through innovation with ServiceNow, MuleSoft, Big Data, and Mobile App Development.

Jason Hulsewede is a Partner with Virtual Telecomm and has been in the Telecommunications and Technology Industry since 2003. His company represents all the Major Telecommunication Carriers providing Cloud Telephony (Hosted VoIP), Internet and Wide Area Network services. Jason is a graduate of the University of Louisville and lives in Louisville with his wife Kate and two children, Holland and Buck.

Are you ready to Power-Shellebrate?

Jeremy Sublett, PowerShell expert and Senior Partner of Composable Systems, will be talking PowerShell. He’ll hit on some of the basics with a brief overview then dive into server administration scenarios, interact with APIs and cloud-based products, and programming with new features.

Jeremy has over 20 years of extensive knowledge in the software architecture and development. Jeremy is a managing partner at Composable Systems, a custom software firm with such honors as Louisville Fast 50, Best Places to Work in Kentucky, and Inc. 5000. Jeremy has enjoyed serving the community for many years by speaking for technology community groups and events throughout Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and Tennessee. While not working, he spends time with his two boys, and enjoys mountain biking and aviation.

Join Eric Hentschel and Matt Kern of StorageCraft for a step-by-step guide to making a backup, disaster recovery and business continuity plan that won’t make you look like a turkey! Get buy-in, keep your environment simple, put your plan somewhere accessible, sort your data into people, pets and pigs, and keep your backups secure!

Eric and Matt will review:

Getting buy-in

Simplifying your environment for ease of recovery and management

How to create an accessible plan system your team can work off of during a disaster

Eric and Matt each have over 30 years of experience in the technology sector with a majority of that time devoted to data storage, data protection, and data recovery. Whether you need on-site or in-the-cloud capabilities, a file or full-blown disaster recovery solution, a general unstructured file target or a high-performance all-flash storage solution, Eric and Matt have the years of experience to help you through the plan and build phases of your project and provide the configuration your organization requires for success.

Brent is Mirazon’s Chief Technical Architect, responsible for large-scale implementations, client escalations, and company-wide best practices for Mirazon solutions. Brent has worked at Mirazon for over ten years, and is a VCAP and MCSE, to name a few of the letters in his email signature.

Join Shawn Waldman of Secure Cyber Defense, LLC for an up-to-date review of the cybersecurity threats out there and then walk through an incident response workshop. In the workshop, we’ll work through your incident response process with real-world scenarios. Bring your questions!

Shawn is the founder and president of Secure Cyber Defense LLC, located in Miamisburg, Ohio. He’s a 20-year IT veteran and served in law enforcement as a police officer in the late 90s.

Shawn is a subject matter expert when it comes to FBI criminal justice compliance and speaks across the country on the topic of cyber security. He’s worked with the US Secret Service and the US AirForce, teaching on the topic of cyber security.

Jason Thomas (left) and Jason Powell (right) have been been Mirazon consulting engineers for quite a few years now, dealing in both VMware and Hyper-V environments. Before Mirazon, they were both system administrators at their respective employers, using VMware every day.

Russell is the key SharePoint Consultant at Composable Systems. Working in SharePoint for five years in three different capacities, Russell can answer almost everything on the topic. He is also involved with LouMUG, the Louisville Microsoft Users Group, and wishes to bring SharePoint Saturdays back to the Ville in the future.